Regina Marie Mills

Invisibility and Influence

A Literary History of Afrolatinidades

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Produktbeschreibung

A rich literary study of AfroLatinx life writing, this book traces how AfroLatinxs have challenged their erasure in the United States and Latin America over the last century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781477329139
• ISBN-10: 1477329137
• Artikelnr.: 68928553

Autorenporträt

Regina Marie Mills

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: (Life) Writing against Mestizaje
* 1. Arturo Schomburg, Pura Belpré, and the “Racial Integrity” of
Auto/biography
* 2. Jesús Colón, the New York Young Lords, and “Observe and
Participate” Autobiography
* 3. AfroLatinidad as Creative Destruction: Piri Thomas’s Life Writing
as a Theorization of Violence
* 4. Call-and-Response AfroLatinidad: Spirituality, Race, and Gender in
Marta Moreno Vega’s and Lourdes Casal’s Life Writing
* 5. Queer AfroLatinidades: Monstrosity and Reclaiming Black Latinx
Girlhood in Jaquira Díaz’s Ordinary Girls and Ariana Brown’s Verse
Memoirs
* Epilogue: Science, Spirituality, and Changing Notions of Ancestry in
AfroLatinx Narratives
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index